Earth Abides

04/14/2020

We are urgently seeking the donation of a truck. Specs: 3/4 ton or higher capacity; minimum 6’ long bed; prefer diesel but gasoline ok too; tow package would be a bonus extra.

We are nestled under the wing of Canticle Farm, a non-profit incorporated under the laws of California and tax-exempt under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

01/18/2020

A video from our neighborhood ag effort. Our greenhouses are a 10 minute stroll away from Earth Abides and present a long view of the night sky.

Climate-chaos and schooling in the image of beauty?

01/14/2020

Rachel starts a chainsaw for the first time during our training with the local fire department.

12/19/2019

The calm before the storm.

12/12/2019

Denis Edwards: "Human history is destined to endure, but it will endure in a radically transfigured form."
..What relationship is there between the world which we help to build by our participation and the new Earth? How is the new Earth related to our work, to culture and to science? How is it related to our efforts to create a just and peaceful world? Is all of this simply the place where we prove ourselves? Or is the new Earth directly related to what we are constructing here and now?

"[Karl] Rahner [1904–1984] answers that the coming kingdom of God will be the deed of God. This is the standard Christian tradition concerning the end time. The final consummation will not be simply an outcome of what has been planned and worked at by [humans]. We face a future which is radically mysterious and uncontrollable, because it is of God.

"But Rahner claims this deed of God can be thought of as the self-transcendence of our own history. Human history, like the history of nature, is to be transformed from within by the power of God. Human history is destined to endure, but it will endure in a radically transfigured form. God’s action is free and beyond our calculations or control, but it comes from within.

"History itself passes into definitive consummation in God. . . . It is not just human beings who endure into eternity, nor is it simply some moral distillation of what they achieve. Rather “that which endures is the work of love as expressed in the concrete in human history.” Human work and human love have eternal significance. . . .

"The human vocation, then, is to be true co-workers with God and stewards of creation. The human task of completing creation derives its meaning from the redemptive and divinizing will of God. This applies even to those who do not know the significance of their contributions. Those whose actions are directed toward the good of the cosmos, believers and unbelievers alike, fall under the impulse of grace.

Art, Photoshop for Food Not Lawns, 2001

http://bugs.scribble.com/images2/saviorose.jpg

12/12/2019

Denis Edwards: "Human history is destined to endure, but it will endure in a radically transfigured form."
..What relationship is there between the world which we help to build by our participatio"n and the new Earth? How is the new Earth related to our work, to culture and to science? How is it related to our efforts to create a just and peaceful world? Is all of this simply the place where we prove ourselves? Or is the new Earth directly related to what we are constructing here and now?

"[Karl] Rahner [1904–1984] answers that the coming kingdom of God will be the deed of God. This is the standard Christian tradition concerning the end time. The final consummation will not be simply an outcome of what has been planned and worked at by [humans]. We face a future which is radically mysterious and uncontrollable, because it is of God.

"But Rahner claims this deed of God can be thought of as the self-transcendence of our own history. Human history, like the history of nature, is to be transformed from within by the power of God. Human history is destined to endure, but it will endure in a radically transfigured form. God’s action is free and beyond our calculations or control, but it comes from within.

"History itself passes into definitive consummation in God. . . . It is not just human beings who endure into eternity, nor is it simply some moral distillation of what they achieve. Rather “that which endures is the work of love as expressed in the concrete in human history.” Human work and human love have eternal significance. . . .

"The human vocation, then, is to be true co-workers with God and stewards of creation. The human task of completing creation derives its meaning from the redemptive and divinizing will of God. This applies even to those who do not know the significance of their contributions. Those whose actions are directed toward the good of the cosmos, believers and unbelievers alike, fall under the impulse of grace.

Art, Photoshop for Food Not Lawns, 2001

http://bugs.scribble.com/images2/saviorose.jpg

12/02/2019

11/28/2019

Walking with Latif in the snow, between neighbors, checking in on crops and delivering fresh veggies from the farm. Goodness, what a beautiful experience of neighborliness, as the first major winter storm bites. "Your neighbors," notes St. Catherine of Sienna, "are the channel through which all your virtues come to birth."